Itzhaq Shai

Dados Biográficos

ID387369
NOMEItzhaq Shai
PRENOMESItzhaq
SOBRENOMEShai
ASSINATURASHAI I
AFILIAÇÕESAriel University
ORCID0000-0003-2709-9584
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS43
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES120
TOTAL COMO AUTOR42
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2004
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H6

  • Figurines and Their Makers

    Jon Ro, Jon Ross et al.ARTICLEAtiqot2025

    Plaque figurines are a well-established Canaanite tradition of the Late Bronze Age Southern Levant. In this paper, we go beyond typology to consider who made these ritual objects at Tel Burna, based on impressions of fingerprints from shaping these figurines using an open mold. The lack of care exhibited on the backs and sides of the plaques has enabled a fingerprint analysis using proven biometric methods to clarify the demographics of their pro…

  • Geoarchaeology in the Absence of Layers

    Open AccessMartin Janovský, Martin P Janovský et al.ARTICLEGeoarchaeology2025Referências: 1

    Understanding the impact of erosion and postdepositional processes is essential for reconstructing site formation in ancient tells. At Tel 1 Burna, a multiperiod stratified site in the Shephelah region of central Israel, we integrate portable X‐ray fluorescence (pXRF), portable optically stimulated luminescence (pOSL), and organic residue analysis (ORA). Our aim is to assess how postdepositional processes shaped the archaeological record in Tel B…

  • The Fortifications of Tel Burna

    Aharon Tavger, Chris Mckinny et al.ARTICLEAtiqot2024

    Tel Burna’s prominent summit, encompassed by a 70 × 70 m casemate fortification, has attracted attention since at least the nineteenth century CE. An analysis of the archaeological data collected during ongoing excavations at the tell indicates that these fortifications were built in the late tenth or early ninth century BCE. The fortification of this Judahite stronghold, located on the border with Philistia, remained in use for the next 200 year…

  • Object Biographies, Object Agency and a Local Community's Encounter with and Response to Foreign Commodities

    Open AccessMatthew Susnow, Chris Mckinny et al.ARTICLECambridge Archaeological Journal2024Referências: 35

    This study investigates the effects that an encounter with a foreign object can have on local traditions. Notions of object agency and object biographies will be utilized to address what happens when people become entangled with new things: the new context can have an impact on the newly introduced object, and those newly introduced objects can similarly impact locals and their traditions. The Late Bronze Age southern Levantine site of Tel Burna …

  • Archaeology in Judea and Samaria 30 years after the Oslo Accords

    Mordechay Lash, Y Goldstein et al.ARTICLEIsrael Affairs2023Referências: 6

    This article examines the trends in archaeological research and the state of conservation of archaeological sites in Judea and Samaria between 1993 and 2022. The absence of Palestinian-Israeli cooperation resulted in the establishment of two parallel bodies that have been responsible for the issue, with no connection between them. In the Israeli-controlled territory, academic involvement declined with only a handful of new excavations. In the Pal…

  • Big-cat hunting in the Bronze and Iron Ages of the Near East

    Open AccessJane S Gaastra, T L Greenfield et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2023

    In ancient Near Eastern iconography, panthers and lions were frequently used to express social status. The zooarchaeological remains of panthers and lions found in this region, however, are most commonly interpreted only as evidence for the management of dangerous animals. Starting with the faunal material from Iron Age Tel Burna, the authors collate and analyse zooarchaeological evidence for big cats across the Near East, from the Neolithic to t…

  • New fingerprint evidence for female potters in Late Bronze Age Canaan

    Open AccessJon Ro, Kent D Fowler et al.ARTICLEJournal of Anthropological…2023Citada por: 3Referências: 62

    Techno-stylistic studies in ceramic analysis have largely focused on characterising production groups, based on the similarity of various objects and how they were made. The demographics of potters and the division of labour often remain enigmatic in current chaîne opératoire research. A growing number of biometric studies have demonstrated the potential of fingerprints preserved on ceramic surfaces for classifying the age and sex of potters. In …

  • The contribution of Posl and PXRF to the discussion on sedimentary and site formation processes in archaeological contexts of the southern Levant and the interpretation of biblical strata at Tel Burna

    Open AccessMartin Janovský, Martin Petr Janovský et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2022

  • Daily life and cultural appropriation in Early Bronze Age Canaan

    Shira Albaz, Haskel J Greenfield et al.ARTICLEPalestine Exploration Quarterly2022Referências: 3

    Discussions on daily life in Early Bronze Age society in the southern Levant often focus on subsistence or ritual phenomena, while aspects relating to entertainment and leisure are rarely discussed. This paper presents evidence for gaming behaviour, in the form of game boards and game pieces, that were recovered in the excavations of the Early Bronze Age (early to mid-3rd millennium bce) residential neighbourhood at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel. All…

  • Tree of Life Motif, Late Bronze Canaanite Cult, and a Recently Discovered Krater from Tel Burna

    Christian Locatell, Chris Mckinny et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2022Citada por: 1

    This paper discusses a krater recently discovered in a cultic building at Tel Burna in the Shephelah. Of special interest is the krater’s relatively well-preserved decoration containing multiple nature scenes related to the so-called tree of life or sacred tree motif. The krater’s physical description and archaeological context and the decoration’s relationship to relevant comparanda are explored in order to elucidate the significance of its icon…

  • When the Defence Minister was an Antiquities Enthusiast

    Mordechay Lash, Y Goldstein et al.ARTICLEPublic Archaeology2021Referências: 1

    Moshe Dayan remains a popular personality who devoted most of his life to the Israeli state and whose military contributions have overshadowed his illegal activities in the field of archaeology. This article offers the first examination of Dayan’s impact on archaeology in the West Bank during his tenure as Israel’s defence minister (1967–74). Dayan moulded the military government in the West Bank in its early years and was involved in appointing …

  • Excavating unstable ground

    Mordechay Lash, Y Goldstein et al.ARTICLEIsrael Affairs2021Citada por: 2Referências: 3

    This article examines the factors that influenced the trends in archaeological excavations in Judea and Samaria during the decade attending the 1967 Six-Day War. Examination reveals a close connection between the political trends in Israel as they pertained to Judea and Samaria and the archaeological excavations undertaken in this region. When a prime minister appeared to consider Judea and Samaria an inseparable part of the state of Israel archa…

  • ArchaeoLife and environment

    Open AccessOren Ackermann, Mauro Coltorti et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2020

  • Tel Burna after a Decade of Work

    Chris Mckinny, Aharon Tavger et al.ARTICLENear Eastern Archaeology2020Citada por: 1Referências: 10

    Tel Burna is located in the southern Shephelah in modern-day southern Israel. Work at the site has revealed remains dating to the Late Bronze II through the Persian period with peaks of activity during the Late Bronze and Iron Age IIA–B. Occupation reached its apex at the site during the Late Bronze Age, when both the summit and the lower plateau were inhabited. An impressive cultic enclosure, with numerous items related to ritual activities, dat…

  • Two Cypriot Pithoi from Late Bronze Age Tel Burna

    Itzhaq Shai, Chris Mckinny et al.ARTICLETel Aviv2019Citada por: 3Referências: 4

    Bronze Age trade in the Eastern Mediterranean is well attested in south Levantine archaeological research, with imported vessels generally playing a significant role in the ceramic assemblage. While the majority of these vessels are found repeatedly at many different sites, there are cases where a rare find sheds new light on the way in which trade patterns are perceived. Such is the case with two fully restored pithoi found in a Late Bronze IIB …

  • The Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages of Southern Canaan

    Ackerman Family Workshop in Biblical Archaeology Ramat Gan, Aharon Maʾir et al.BOOKLate Bronze and Early Iron Ages…2019Citada por: 4

    The Late Bronze Age in the Levant is a period of much interest to archaeologists, historians and biblical scholars. This is a period with intense international relations, rich in ancient sources, which provide historical data for the period, and is a crucial formative period for the peoples and cultures who play central roles in the Hebrew Bible. Recent archaeological research in Israel and surrounding countries has provided new, exciting, and in…

  • Multi-element mapping of anthropogenically modified soils and sediments at the Bronze to Iron Ages site of Tel Burna in the southern Levant

    Open AccessLadislav Šmejda, Michal Hejcman et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2018

  • A scanning method for the identification of pottery forming techniques at the mesoscopic scale

    Open AccessJon Ro, Kent D Fowler et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2018Citada por: 3Referências: 19

  • Provisioning the Early Bronze Age City of Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel

    Open AccessElizabeth R Arnold, Elizabeth Arnold et al.ARTICLEOpen Quaternary2018Citada por: 10Referências: 46

    It is often assumed that domestic animals in early urban Near Eastern centres either are a reflection of the local pastoral economy, or were raised at a distance by pastoral specialists. In this paper, we test these assumptions through detailed isotopic analyses (carbon, oxygen and strontium) of caprines (sheep and goat) from Tell es-Safi/Gath, an Early Bronze Age urban centre in central Israel. The isotopic analyses demonstrate that the bulk of …

  • Household Rituals and Sacrificial Donkeys

    Haskel J Greenfield, T L Greenfield et al.ARTICLENear Eastern Archaeology2018Referências: 12

    A few years ago, a domestic donkey (Equus asinus), or ass, was discovered at Tell eṣ-Ṣafi/Gath in modern Israel and determined to have been sacrificed and buried as a foundation deposit beneath the floor of an Early Bronze III house. Since then, three additional complete domestic donkey burials have been revealed beneath the floors of another house in the same Early Bronze neighborhood. These animals were buried within a nonelite domestic neighbo…

  • The Wide Lens in Archaeology

    Open AccessJeffrey A Blakely, Inbar Ktalav et al.BOOKWide Lens in Archaeology2017

    This book honors the memory of Brian Hesse, a scholar of Near Eastern archaeology, a writer of alliterative and punned publication titles, and an accomplished amateur photographer. Hesse specialized in zooarchaeology, but he influenced a wider range of excavators and ancient historians with his broad interpretive reach. He spent much of his career analyzing faunal materials from different countries in the Middle East-including Iran, Yemen, and Is…

  • Flair of the Dog The Philistine Consumption of Canines

    Open AccessJustin Lev-Tov, Paula Hesse et al.CHAPTERWide Lens in Archaeology2017

    This book honors the memory of Brian Hesse, a scholar of Near Eastern archaeology, a writer of alliterative and punned publication titles, and an accomplished amateur photographer. Hesse specialized in zooarchaeology, but he influenced a wider range of excavators and ancient historians with his broad interpretive reach. He spent much of his career analyzing faunal materials from different countries in the Middle East-including Iran, Yemen, and Is…

  • The Late Bronze Age at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath

    Itzhaq Shai, Jacques Uziel et al.ARTICLENear Eastern Archaeology2017Referências: 3

    The story of Canaanite Gath begins with the el-Amarna texts (Na'aman 1979; Rainey 2012; Levin, this issue), where it appears that the city was a major contender in the Shephelah power plays of the fourteenth century B.C.E. While some have contended the connection between Gath, Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi and the Amarna period ruler Šuwardatu (Moran 1992: 384), the petrographic examination conducted on the tablets create a strong link between them (Goren, Finkel…

  • The Early Bronze Age at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath

    Haskel J Greenfield, Itzhaq Shai et al.ARTICLENear Eastern Archaeology2017Citada por: 1Referências: 8

    In 1899, Bliss and Macalister launched a brief but intensive campaign of excavation at the site of Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath and uncovered evidence for a large-scale fortification system and thick deposits from various time periods. While they argued that the majority of remains, including the fortifications, were of Iron Age or later origin, some Early Bronze Age remains also appeared in their reports and collections

  • The life-history of basalt ground stone tools from early urban domestic contexts

    Open AccessJeremy A Beller, Haskel J Greenfield et al.ARTICLEJournal of Lithic Studies2016

    Recent archaeological excavations at the early urban settlement of Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel present the opportunity to reconstruct the life-history of basalt ground stone artefacts of an early urban domestic neighbourhood. Tell es-Safi/Gath is a multi-period site located on the border between the Judean foothills and the southern coastal plain of central Israel. Survey and excavations over the last two decades demonstrated that it was a major ur…